Before Randy Pitchford became the President of Gearbox, before he released Borderlands, before he worked on Duke Nukem 3D in the mid 90s — before all of that Randy Pitchford was a magician. A very good one. We spoke to Randy about his past, and how somehow managed to transition so seamlessly from magic to game design. READ MORE...

Back at PAX East, we unveiled the first few details on our two special editions of Borderlands 2 and promised to reveal more as soon as we could. Well, today is that day plus more! We are proud to announce that we have our final cover art for Borderlands 2 ...READ MORE

Check out the PlayStation.Blog for the latest on the competitive multiplayer of Aliens: Colonial Marines!

While we know a good bit about the game’s tense single-player campaign, details about its multiplayer component have remained frustratingly elusive. So we took to Twitter and posed @PlayStation followers a simple question — what do you want to know about the multiplayer mode in Aliens: Colonial Marines?

We received a flood of questions — some insightful, some maniacally detail-oriented — and presented them to Gearbox Software Multiplayer Producer Chris Brock. Though Gearbox is keeping tight-lipped concerning certain specific details for the game, some of your questions did manage to penetrate their veil of secrecy with all the effectiveness of a 10mm explosive-tipped pulse rifle round. Read on to learn more.

"Gearbox's Randy Pitchford was kind enough to chat with Tristan, my now 11-year-old son, at PAX East earlier this year," writes Brian Crecente, News Editor at Polygon. "Since then Tristan has become a bit of a Borderlands fan. He likes it so much that he asked for a Borderlands cake this year."

The next Aliens video game counts. It's canon. And the people who are making it think it might finally solve some key mysteries in the film—and even make the films a bit better.

"It's all connected together," Randy Pitchford, head of Gearbox Software said to me recently, as we sat down in a convention hall in Boston to chat about Aliens: Colonial Marines, the big new game his team has been working on ...READ MORE

More updates have been posted on the official Facebook pages for Aliens: Colonial Marines (facebook.com/aliensgames) and Borderlands 2 (facebook.com/borderlandsgame) including additional details on our Pulse Rifle and a look at some fan-made Claptrap costumes!